Samedaydoctor Canary Wharf

Samedaydoctor Canary Wharf samedaydoctor Canary Wharf is a private GP practice for all your medical needs. Offering a wealth of services 6 days a week.

Virtual & In Person Consultations , Vits & Drips , BabyJabs. Walk in/Same day Appointments
GP consults for babies, children and adults
Same day Blood tests
Sexual Health screening
Same day Appointments for X-rays/CT scan/MRI Scan/USS/ECG
Specialist Consultant referrals
Ear Syringing
Wound dressing
Sick notes/Fit notes
Flu Vaccines
Travel Vaccines
Emergency contraception/Contraception, fertility

blood tests and referrals
Mole screening
Medicals
DNA testing
Drug and alcohol screening

Special Interests:
Children's Health
Women's Health/Fertility/Contraception
Men's Health
Sexual Health
Skin and mole screening
Elderly care
Counselling and stress management

17/08/2026

A full blood count can come back completely normal while your iron stores are running on empty.

That’s because haemoglobin, the thing a standard blood count measures, is the last thing to drop. Your body will strip its reserves first and keep haemoglobin propped up for a long time. The test that shows the reserves is ferritin, and it isn’t always included.

This matters most for anyone who menstruates, where low iron is common and often runs for years before it shows up on a basic panel. Fatigue, breathlessness on stairs, cold hands, hair shedding, brain fog. All of it gets put down to being busy.

Vitamin D is worth knowing about too. Deficiency is genuinely common here, particularly between October and March, and more so if you have darker skin or cover up. But most people supplement it without ever having it measured, which means if it wasn’t the problem, you’ve spent months not finding out what was.

Thyroid, B12, blood sugar and sleep quality all sit on the same list.

The point isn’t that your tiredness is nothing. It’s that tiredness has a lot of possible causes and only a few of them show up on the panel you’re most likely to be given.

If you’ve been tired for months and been told everything looks fine, it’s reasonable to ask what was actually tested.

14/08/2026

Nearly a third of England’s measles cases this year have been in people over 15.

The figures run to early August: 953 confirmed cases, with just over 11% in the 15 to 24 group, nearly 12% in 25 to 34, and another 9% in people 35 and over. More than half of all cases have been in London.

Most of us file measles under childhood illness, something that happens at nursery and doesn’t concern us. The data says otherwise.

There’s a reason it clusters where it does. The two dose schedule only came in during the mid nineties, so plenty of people vaccinated before then had one dose rather than two. And coverage dipped again for children born in the late nineties and early two thousands, who are now in their late twenties and thirties. A lot of adults are walking around with an incomplete record and no idea.

Case numbers are low at the moment. They were low last September too, then climbed steadily through autumn and peaked in February. Which is exactly why this is worth sorting now rather than when it’s back in the news.

If you don’t know your status, your GP record will. Worth a look.

09/08/2026

Most people leave with one line…your cholesterol’s fine.

The standard panel gives you total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides. It’s useful. It’s also not the full picture, and the cardiology literature has been moving away from LDL as the lead marker for a few years now.

The one gaining ground is ApoB. Rather than measuring how much cholesterol you’re carrying, it counts the particles carrying it. That distinction matters, because you can have an LDL that looks perfectly reasonable and a particle count that doesn’t. Same number on paper, different risk.

It’s the group with normal-looking results and a family history they can’t explain who tend to fall through here.

It isn’t standard on most panels, and it isn’t something you’d know to ask for unless someone told you. So consider this someone telling you.

Worth saying, one number doesn’t decide anything on its own. It sits alongside your blood pressure, your family history, what you smoke, what you weigh, how you move. Any of it read in isolation is just a number.

But if you’ve had “your cholesterol’s fine” and it never quite settled the question, this is the conversation to have.

04/08/2026

King’s College London asked people why they’d used an AI chatbot instead of seeing a doctor. 39% said they weren’t sure their problem was serious enough to bother a GP.

Nearly four in ten people decided, on their own, that they hadn’t earned the appointment.

Working out whether something is serious is the hardest part of this job. It’s what the training is for. And it’s now being done alone, at eleven at night, by people who’ve talked themselves out of asking.

If it turns out to be nothing, you get to stop carrying it around. That’s not a wasted appointment. That’s the appointment working.

You don’t need a good enough reason. Just come in.

Four in ten people who asked an AI about their health did it because they weren't sure they were ill enough to bother a ...
01/08/2026

Four in ten people who asked an AI about their health did it because they weren't sure they were ill enough to bother a GP.

That's the finding from King's College London that we can't stop thinking about. Not the convenience one, not the waiting times one. The one where people quietly decided their own symptoms didn't qualify.

We understand how it happens. When getting an appointment feels like a competition, you start rationing yourself. You tell yourself it's probably nothing. You type it into a chat window instead, because that feels like less of an imposition.

And AI is genuinely useful for some of this. If you've got a blood result you don't understand, or a letter written in a language nobody speaks, it will help. If it gives you the words for something you've been struggling to describe, that's a good thing.

What it can't do is decide whether you need to be seen. A study in Nature Medicine found these tools incorrectly triaged more than half of medical emergencies. Deciding what's urgent is the difficult part, and it's the part that's now being done alone at 11pm.

So the line we'd draw is this. Use it to understand. Don't use it to decide.

And if you're sitting there working out whether you're ill enough to be seen, that's exactly the question we'd rather you brought to us.

Jess's Rule is now displayed in GP consultation rooms across England. If you've had three appointments for the same prob...
20/07/2026

Jess's Rule is now displayed in GP consultation rooms across England. If you've had three appointments for the same problem with no clear answer, or things are getting worse, your GP team should stop and look at your case with fresh eyes.

It exists because Jessica Brady's parents refused to let her story end with her. Worth saving, and worth sending to someone who's been putting up with symptoms for too long.

16/07/2026

The first daily weight loss tablet has just been approved in the UK. Same active medicine as one of the well-known injections, and the trial results were very similar, around 13 percent average weight loss.

The real difference is the routine. The injection is once a week and done. The tablet is every day, on an empty stomach, with a wait before eating. Get that wrong and it doesn't absorb properly.
So it comes down to you. If needles are the barrier, the tablet removes it. If a strict daily routine sounds unrealistic, the weekly option might suit you better.

It's not available on the NHS yet, and weight loss medication isn't right for everyone. It needs a proper conversation with a doctor first, looking at your history, your health and what you actually want to achieve.

If you've been weighing it up, that conversation is the place to start.

The new weight loss tablet is getting a lot of attention, and a lot of questions in our clinic. So here are honest answe...
08/07/2026

The new weight loss tablet is getting a lot of attention, and a lot of questions in our clinic. So here are honest answers to the ones we hear most.

If you're thinking about weight loss medication, tablet or otherwise, the starting point is a proper conversation with a doctor. Not an online quiz. We'll look at your health as a whole, talk through whether it's right for you, and be straight with you if it isn't.

Got a question? Drop it in the comments or message us. Follow-up post coming.

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